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      • Kane resents being taken from his home and the security he felt there and never reconciles himself to that separation. As a result, Kane grows up to be an arrogant and callous man. Ultimately, his attitude alienates him from everyone who cares about him, and he loses his newspaper, his fortune, and his friends.
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  3. www.sparknotes.com › character › charles-foster-kaneCharles Foster Kane Character Analysis in Citizen Kane ...

    Kane seems idealistic when he first begins to run his newspaper, but his primary reason for becoming a newspaperman is to manipulate his political and social environment in order to gain total control over it.

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      The difficulty of interpreting a person’s life once that...

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      Rosebud, the sled Kane loves as a child, appears at the...

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  4. www.sparknotes.com › film › citizenkaneCitizen Kane: Plot Overview | SparkNotes

    All reveal in some way that Kane is arrogant, thoughtless, morally bankrupt, desperate for attention, and incapable of giving love. These faults eventually cause Kane to lose his paper, fortune, friends, and beloved second wife, Susan. Thompson, the reporter, never does find out what Kane meant by "Rosebud."

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    The marriage sours because of Kane's egomania, obsession with his newspapers and attacks on her uncle's administration. Their marital problems reach the point that they are barely on speaking terms, with Kane ignoring Emily as she reads the rival Chronicle newspaper at breakfast. Kane opposes US entry into World War I.

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    In a mansion called Xanadu, part of a vast palatial estate in Florida, the elderly Charles Foster Kane is on his deathbed. Holding a snow globe, he utters his last word, "Rosebud", and dies. A newsreel obituary tells the life story of Kane, an enormously wealthy newspaper publisher and industry magnate. Kane's death becomes sensational news ...

  8. www.sparknotes.com › film › citizenkaneCitizen Kane: Key Facts | SparkNotes

    · Kane’s statement to Thatcher that if his paper lost $ 1 million a year he could still run it for sixty years. This cocky comment foreshadows Kane’s bankruptcy and the selling of his assets to Thatcher.

  9. blogs.cornell.edu › rosescholarsfall2017/2017/11Charles Kane: An Interesting Character | Rose Scholars Fall 2017

    Nov 9, 2017 · Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper tycoon based in part on William Randolph Hearst, dies at his opulent estate, Xanadu. His last word, as reported in the papers, is “Rosebud”. A newspaper reporter is tasked by his editor with discovering who or what “Rosebud” is.

  10. www.gradesaver.com › citizen-kane › study-guideCitizen Kane Chapter 7: Newspaper Fun - Chapter 13: Social ...

    The scene ends with a triumphant low-angle medium shot of Charles Foster Kane, beaming, as the image dissolves to his declaration printed on the front page of the new Inquirer. Kane, Leland, and Bernstein look out of the window of the Inquirer office, upon which is printed "Circulation: 26,000".